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Chicago examiner this paper is committed to the policy of public ownership of public utilities thuksday vol xv no 312 a m * * Chicago december 20 1917 thursday registered t>t?tr , t7 two ptxttc in Chicago ei-kewhki'f u s patent office rkuuizi wu uii(jn x o and suburbs three cents costello reveals gigantic graft loss of 50,000 libel suit to be cost of ex-chief's removal chief of ring swearsj 7,500 promotion graft is plotted by meston v wieland three new and startling charges were made from the witness stand in the healey-barry skidmore conspiracy trial yesterday by tom costello confessed grafter and police fixer they were 1 that former police chief charles c healey plotted to collect 7,500 from thirty police men who sought promotions to sergeancies 2 that healey and his alleged co-conspirators planned to ex pand the scope of their graft col lections by thousands of dollars weekly 3 that healey through cos tello sought forcibly to retain his place as police chief by threaten ing mayor thompson with the loss of a 50,000 damage suit brought by robert m buck former alder man in addition costello named more than a score of police officials whose transfer he said he forced the form er police head to order arrests thwart new extortion plot the sale of police promotions and the expansion of their graft opera tions costello declared were thwarted by the arrest of healey and his co-defendants stepen barry and william r skidmore assistant state's attorney henry berger announced last night that the state will conclude its examination of costello at noon to-day attorney charles e erbstein of counsel for the defense then will begin the cross examination which is expected to con sume the remainder of the week eighty records of graft identified costello identified more than eighty documents and other memo randa seized in his office by state's attorney hoyne's men they detailed alleged winnings and â€” a few â€” losses of gambling and other disorderly resorts schedules of week ly and monthly tribute paid to the ring and listed places for extortion some of the documents were re stored from fragments found on the office floor and in waste paper baskets split takes place in policy of defense costello said that he and skidmore has written virtually all erbstein wjio represents skidmore and barry did not oppose them as evidence john j healy and clarence s dar row counsel for the ex-chief did every scrap of paper told another incident in the most astonishing reve lation of vice and political intrigue heard in a Chicago court said that he visited the ex evanston woman gets cross of war the french government has awarded to dr jane wells craven formerly of evanston the croix de guerre dr craven it is said is the first american wom an to receive the honor news of the award was received in evanston yesterday in a letter from mrs charles hasszart of new york sister of dr craven it was given for rescuing and aiding wounded under fire the letter said dr craven in telling her sister of the honor withheld the details packers face prosecution heney asserts that by yards ownership they cover up their real profits washington deo 19 f â€” the in quiry by the federal trade commission into the packing industry promises to take a sensational turn to-mor row for the Chicago packers francis j heney special counsel for the com mission is said to have proof the packers own the Chicago stock yards end terminals and thus are able to raise prices and cover up their profits the packers have testified they had no financial interest or control in the yards eastern brokers called stock brokers of new york and boston will testify to-morrow that ownership and control really rests with the packers none of the packers will be given an opportunity to testify further mr heney believes some of the pack ers would be willing to testify for the government and gain immunity from prosecution he holds they have known all the time that for them to own and con trol the stock yards and terminals was a direct violation of the anti trust law and would bar them from interstate commerce and have failed to heed ample warning the documentary proof now in the hands of the government is said to show that instead of complying with the law the packers put through a deal either in boston or new york by which they transferred their in terests in the stock yards and ter minals and covered up the true ownership investigation welcomed the federal trade commission is free to investigate the union stock yards & transit company and its al leged connections with the packers according to john a spoor chairman of the directorate of the company in stating he had nothing to fear from such an investigation mme.romanoff lands but she s not tatiana 4 pacific port dec 19 has the indomitable and infernal press agent once more put it over much publioity was given recently to the reported coming to america of ta tiana romanoff a daughter of the former czar to-day the matter was cleared up when mme romanoff a grand opera singer arrived here and declared that she had been mistaken for the former grand duchess and de tained in yokohama by american consul paul july villa changes name to severino gonzales el paso tex dec is â€” escaped federal prisoners say francisco villa has changed his name to severino gonzales the escaped men reported at chihuahua to-day villa dropped the name of dorotea aranza when he went to the mountains as a bandit 8,000 grant men obtain xmas leave executive committee called to meet to-day and rush prepa rations for their reception war department rescinds previ ous order and allows all roads can accommodate on trip from 8,000 to 10.000 of chicago's soldier boys are coming home from rockford for christmas the war department has rescinded its order keeping the men in camp and gen eral kennon will let every possible man come home for five days the number of men will be limited â€¢ only by the traffic facilities on the five railroads between Chicago and camp grant Chicago will go ahead with plans for a city-wide celebration for the boys alderman w f lipps has is sued a call for a meeting of the ex ecutive committee in the council committee room in the city hall at 10 o'clock this morning able to catch ip we have lost forty-eight hours because of the war department's or der he said last night but we prob ably will be able to catch up every home and business place in the city should fly the american flag begin ning saturday when the men will start to arrive we will try to meet them all with bands upon their arrival we hope to carry out the plan for a monster meeting in the coliseum sunday aft ernoon when they will be addressed by governor lowden and mayor thompson gen kennon's order the announcement made last night setting aside the arrangement call ing for leaves for only 5 per cent of the men created wild enthusiasm at camp grant the order was con tained in the following orders re ceived by general kennon the secretary of war directs the number of men granted leave be left to the commanding officer . particular care being taken not to permit such numbers to go on leave as will further congest traffic over railroads in view of the present condition of traffic general kennon promptly decided to give the five-day leave beginning saturday noon to all the men living within a reasonable distance of the cantonment about 80 per cent of the soldiers will receive the benefit of the new order ' twenty-four special trains will be necessary to care for the exodus henry e scholle ends life on coast henry e scholle seventy formerly head of the h e scholle furniture company 121 south wabash avenue and one of chicago's oldest and bjpst known business men committed sui cide at his home in alta dena near los angeles yesterday he recently underwent two operations and a third had been ordered the first shot he fired at his head missed and when his nurs"e rushed into his room he com pelled her to stand back while he fired a second shot which struck his head mr scholle retired from busi ness and left Chicago six years ago bolsheviki beaten in siberia election by a staff correspondent of the in ternational news service tokio dec 19 dispatches to the japanese foreign office state that in the elections in siberia completed sunday the bolsheviki received only 40 per cent of the total vote and their opponents swept most of the larger cities mariial law isproclaimed in pertrograd bolsheviki decree death penalty for enemies as disorders in capital grow loot wine shops lenine troops and ukrainian army battle in street of odessa as peace parleys open petrograd dec 1 â€” general knledlnes following his victory at rostov has offered proposal to the bckshcviki c'ovrrnment to end the civil lvar on a basis of independence for the don territory and noninter vention by the maximalists london dec 19 â€” a state of siege has been proclaimed in petrograd by the council of workmen's and sol diers delegates this step was taken in an effort to repress disorders which have followed the wholesale looting of wineshops dispatches from petrograd announced to-night the death penalty for enemies of the nation abolished at the outset of the revolution has been restored in a decree which the bolsheviki commissary of justice is preparing terrific fighting is raging in the streets of odessa where ukrainian troops and bolsheviki red guards are battling for possession of this vital seaport no decision reached the ukrainians have fortifed the opera house and are sweeping the be sieging bolsheviki with machine gun fire apparently the fighting has not reached a decision the bolsheviki are still in control of most of the city bolsheviki troops have surrounded some ukrainians at the railway sta tion the bolsheviki war office also an nounced to-day that their forces are advancing toward kieff the bolsheviki to-day served an ultimatum on the ukrainians de manding that they cease granting aid to general kaledines within forty eight hours or else war would be de clared against them peace parleys open amsterdam dec 19 â€” count czernin austrian foreign minister and german foreign minister von kuehlmann arrived at brest-litovsk to-day and began their negotiations with the russian plenipotentiaries for peace leon trotsky the bolshe viki foreign minister has not yet joined the parleys a cologne gazette dispatch re ceived here to-day says the munici pality of budapest has adopted unani mously resolutions demanding that the government immediately grant hungary complete autonomy of gov ernment with the authority of the emperor as the sole link with austria trotsky dictates terms petrograd dec 19 leon trot sky the bolsheviki foreign minister has demanded through the russian peace commissioners at brest-litovsk that germany agree in principle to a peace without annexations or indem nities as a prelude to a peace with russia germany must also acknowl edge the right of self-determination of nations demand land partition washington dec 19 seeds of revolution sown by the bolsheviki have taken root in austria it was believed in administration circles fol lowing the receipt this afternoon of the following zurich dispatch in the commission of the budget in the austrian chamber of deputies urzal the agrarian czech deputy presented a resolution demanding the partition of landed property among the peasants to uphold his demand ur^al said since austria-hungary and germany have recognized the maximalists and fraternized with them it goes without saying that the former will adopt the principles of i communism which forms the basis of i maximalists reforms " 14 big british vessels sunk in last week london dec 19 fourteen british vessels of more than 1,600 tons each and three below that tonnage were sent down by german submarines or mines during the last week according to the official statement issued by the admiralty to-night one fishing craft was lost this is the same number of large vesseis lost the previous week and a de crease of eight smaller ones paris dec 19 french ship ping losses for the week ending december 15 were exceedingly light only one vessel under 1,600 tons was sunk and none over 1,600 tons one ship was attacked but escaped no fishing craft was sunk teuton force crosses piave driven back to water's edge by italians in offensive aimed at venice london dec 19 â€” austro-german troops succeeded in crossing the old piave to-day on pontoons but after a series of desperate engagements were driven back to the water's edge according to a report from italian army headquarters the fighting in this sector is grow ing in intensity the crossing was effected about three miles above the mouth of the river four other at tempts launched at the same time were checked before the pontoons could be swung into position fight ing at these points is still continuing battling for venice a successful crossing of the lower piave in force opens the venice road to the enemy in the mountainous districts on the northern front the enemy made massed attacks against the heights commanding the pass of san lorenzo leading down to the venetian plains and bassano all the attacks with one exception were repulsed in one sector the italian forces were withdrawn after an onslaught by the austrians with heavy reinforcements the pass is one of the vital links in the chain of defenses protecting the road to the plains two thousand additional italian prisoners including forty-eight of ficers were captured by austro-ger man troops in assault on positions at monte asolone and adjoining heights according to an official statement from the berlin war office to-night snows retard advance with the french armies in italy dec 19 â€” the long hoped for snows which are counted on to form a formidable obstacle to the teutonic advance at last have begun to fall in earnest and confidence is growing that the invaders have been stopped Taft advises using club on teuton heads boston dec 19 â€” former presi dent Taft told manufacturers at a banquet here to-night that the united states is not only fighting the kaiser and the prussian military system but the german people the only way we can win he added is by hit ting the german people on the head with a club mr Taft said the united states must send from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 american soldiers to france mother kills son who slew own boy montrose colo dec 19.â€”be cause he killed his own son john o bush was killed by his mother aged seventy-two and his body chopped up and boiled in lye this was the same manner in which he had hidden his own crime the aged woman confessed her crime to the police to-day army refused 40,000 guns 1,000 ships in american navy daniels shows u.s.fleet is ready big expansion efficient speed ing up told at house inquiry secretary rebukes britten denies friction with sims washington dec 19.â€”secre retary daniels was the first and chief witness at the opening of the investigation of the jiavy by the house naval committee to-day almost at the outset there was a clash between representative britten of the committee and mr daniels over an insinuation by brit ten that there had been friction be tween admiral sims and the de partment daniels characterized the questions as mess gossip and declined to go into details except in secret session on the whole the navy came out with flying colors the evidence of preparedness for war and of readi ness to cut red tape was in strong contrast with the evidence thus far brought out in the senate investiga tion of the war department 428 big ships building he says the committee was almost ready to applaud when secretary daniels an nounced that the department had un der construction 42s capital and im portant ships not including 350 sub marine chasers when he had fin ished reading a statement of the progress made by the navy in the war britten broke in will you furnish the committee with all the complaints that have come from admiral sims regarding the department's methods in comply ing with his requests i do not believe such mess gossip should be heralded and bandied about replied the secretary if such matters are to be discussed it should be done in executive session daniels retorts sharply to britten you do not think then - britten asked that we should know of the navy's failure to comply with ad miral sims requests i hope it is not the purpose of the navy or of this committee to show only the navy's favorable side i think your question is not a proper one to ask in open session that is a matter between admiral sims and myself as the question has been asked however i will say that admiral sims has been given every thing the navy has that it could give it is a matter for the bureau of operations to say what admiral sims ordnance offeris ignored by crozier navy asked for machine rifles day after relations were broken manufacturer says army chief not interested washington dec 19 rifle manufacturers to-day laid at the door of the war depart ment entire blame for the delay in supplying rifles and machine guns for american soldiers inability of department officers to sense the danger three months be fore war was declared and refusal to interest themselves in prepared ness are held responsible for tha small arms shortage Â± the manufacturers appearing as^fl witnesses before the senate militav^j affairs committee told how they had been rebuffed when they tried to con vince ordnance bureau officers they should prepare for impending trou ble their testimony showed that m the army to-day might be richer by^fl 40,000 machine guns if the ordnan^h bureau had adopted a different <^| tude guns offered would v supply 4,833,000 men forty thousand machine guns would supply an army of 4,833,000 men louis e stoddard vice president of the marlin rifle corporation tes tified on the first day of february last the marlin-rockwell company received a telegram from adinirul earle who was the head ot the ordnance department of the navy asking that a representative be sent to washington i landed here on the morning of february 3 x presented myself to admiral earle and he asked me if we were manu facturing a machine gun i said we were he said how long would it take you to produce machine guns i said two weeks ago an ticipating trouble we started in to make the tools jigs and fix tures for the american caliber of the colt gun we were then manu facturing at the rate of about 150 a day admiral orders work to begin senator wadsworth â€” for what government mr stoddard â€” for the rus sian government the russian cali ber paid for by england and or dered by england but ready for russia senator hitchcock â€” that was in february mr stoddard â€” that was february 3 admiral earle said i have no money i do not know how many i will need but will you go ahead i said certainly ( we will go ahead without regard to that and the record shows â€” i looked it up yesterday afternoon that we immediately bought su nlies for the manufacture o gun without any relation to an order or anything else senator hitchcock â€” that was for the navy mr stoddard for the n:ivy senator hitchcock when u.s weather forecast Chicago and vlclnltyâ€”con tinned cloudy and unsettled weather thursday and probably friday with possibly light rain not much change in temperature moderate variable winds temperature for twenty-four hours ending at 2 a m highest 41 lowest 85 mean 18 normal temperature for the day 38 deficiency of temperature since january 1 631 degrees barometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 a m 30.15 7 p m 20.<h sunrise to-day tat fiiujet 4.21 comolete government repurt on rage 1 gen crozier forced out by pershing washington dec 19â€”gen '" eral pershing forced the re moval of general crozier and gen eral sharpe as active heads of the army's ordnance and quartermas ter bureaus respectively this report came out here to day following the taking of testi mony in the senate's investiga tion of the war department in cablegram after cablegram gen eral pershing asked for the speed ing up of shipments of arms and supplies he refused to send his troops to the front until they were fully equipped finally he cabled a virtual de mand for the removal of the men responsible for the delays secre tary baker's announcement of the formation of the new army war council followed speed up ships wilson urged colby and mccormick declare 1,000,000 men cannot be supplied otherwise washington dec 19 â€” a warning direct to president wilson that ship construction must be speeded up was given to-day by bainbridge colby of the shipping board and vance mccor mick chairman of the war trade board both of whom were members of the american mlss.ion.lo paris the warning was sounded at a con ference between chairman hurley and the other three war chiefs it was explained that the demands of the allies for food and supplies have so increased that it will be impossible to transport to europe and maintain there before next fall the 1,000,000 men needed unless more ships are forthcoming < french file complaints it is understood that serious com plaint was made by the french rep resentatives at the paris conference that their supplies from the united states had been limited since ameri can troops began to move across the atlantic at the conclusion of the discussion to-day it was said the ex isting conditions were unavoidable but that suggestions had been made which would afford partial relief no details were made public inquiry begins to-day congressional investigation of the shipping board will begin to-morrow morning at a preliminary meeting of the senate committee this an nouncement was made to-day by sen ator fletcher chairman of the com mittee following a conference with chairman hurley of the shipping board the latteir emphasized to senator fletcher that he desired the investigation to take the widest pos sible scope in fairness to the ship ping board while mr hurley made no state ment following the conference it is understood senator fletcher obtained a list of witnesses ready to testify chairman hurley left for newark n j to-night where at 10 o'clock to-morrow he will drive the first rivet in the pioneer fabricated steel ship to be built in this country philadelphia's mayor indicted in vote war philadelphia dec 19 â€” mayor thomas b smith was indicted by the grand jury to-day on charges of con tempt of court and violating the act which forbids citv employes from par ticipating in politics the indict ments are the result of the bloody fifth ward riots in the september primaries â– continued on 2d page sth column on 4th page ist column final edition the one best chance that will give you your oppor tunity to make good in a big way may be listed to-day in the business chances or help wanted columns of the exam iner don't take any chance of losing the opportunity read these ads now

Chicago examiner this paper is committed to the policy of public ownership of public utilities thuksday vol xv no 312 a m * * Chicago december 20 1917 thursday registered t>t?tr , t7 two ptxttc in Chicago ei-kewhki'f u s patent office rkuuizi wu uii(jn x o and suburbs three cents costello reveals gigantic graft loss of 50,000 libel suit to be cost of ex-chief's removal chief of ring swearsj 7,500 promotion graft is plotted by meston v wieland three new and startling charges were made from the witness stand in the healey-barry skidmore conspiracy trial yesterday by tom costello confessed grafter and police fixer they were 1 that former police chief charles c healey plotted to collect 7,500 from thirty police men who sought promotions to sergeancies 2 that healey and his alleged co-conspirators planned to ex pand the scope of their graft col lections by thousands of dollars weekly 3 that healey through cos tello sought forcibly to retain his place as police chief by threaten ing mayor thompson with the loss of a 50,000 damage suit brought by robert m buck former alder man in addition costello named more than a score of police officials whose transfer he said he forced the form er police head to order arrests thwart new extortion plot the sale of police promotions and the expansion of their graft opera tions costello declared were thwarted by the arrest of healey and his co-defendants stepen barry and william r skidmore assistant state's attorney henry berger announced last night that the state will conclude its examination of costello at noon to-day attorney charles e erbstein of counsel for the defense then will begin the cross examination which is expected to con sume the remainder of the week eighty records of graft identified costello identified more than eighty documents and other memo randa seized in his office by state's attorney hoyne's men they detailed alleged winnings and â€” a few â€” losses of gambling and other disorderly resorts schedules of week ly and monthly tribute paid to the ring and listed places for extortion some of the documents were re stored from fragments found on the office floor and in waste paper baskets split takes place in policy of defense costello said that he and skidmore has written virtually all erbstein wjio represents skidmore and barry did not oppose them as evidence john j healy and clarence s dar row counsel for the ex-chief did every scrap of paper told another incident in the most astonishing reve lation of vice and political intrigue heard in a Chicago court said that he visited the ex evanston woman gets cross of war the french government has awarded to dr jane wells craven formerly of evanston the croix de guerre dr craven it is said is the first american wom an to receive the honor news of the award was received in evanston yesterday in a letter from mrs charles hasszart of new york sister of dr craven it was given for rescuing and aiding wounded under fire the letter said dr craven in telling her sister of the honor withheld the details packers face prosecution heney asserts that by yards ownership they cover up their real profits washington deo 19 f â€” the in quiry by the federal trade commission into the packing industry promises to take a sensational turn to-mor row for the Chicago packers francis j heney special counsel for the com mission is said to have proof the packers own the Chicago stock yards end terminals and thus are able to raise prices and cover up their profits the packers have testified they had no financial interest or control in the yards eastern brokers called stock brokers of new york and boston will testify to-morrow that ownership and control really rests with the packers none of the packers will be given an opportunity to testify further mr heney believes some of the pack ers would be willing to testify for the government and gain immunity from prosecution he holds they have known all the time that for them to own and con trol the stock yards and terminals was a direct violation of the anti trust law and would bar them from interstate commerce and have failed to heed ample warning the documentary proof now in the hands of the government is said to show that instead of complying with the law the packers put through a deal either in boston or new york by which they transferred their in terests in the stock yards and ter minals and covered up the true ownership investigation welcomed the federal trade commission is free to investigate the union stock yards & transit company and its al leged connections with the packers according to john a spoor chairman of the directorate of the company in stating he had nothing to fear from such an investigation mme.romanoff lands but she s not tatiana 4 pacific port dec 19 has the indomitable and infernal press agent once more put it over much publioity was given recently to the reported coming to america of ta tiana romanoff a daughter of the former czar to-day the matter was cleared up when mme romanoff a grand opera singer arrived here and declared that she had been mistaken for the former grand duchess and de tained in yokohama by american consul paul july villa changes name to severino gonzales el paso tex dec is â€” escaped federal prisoners say francisco villa has changed his name to severino gonzales the escaped men reported at chihuahua to-day villa dropped the name of dorotea aranza when he went to the mountains as a bandit 8,000 grant men obtain xmas leave executive committee called to meet to-day and rush prepa rations for their reception war department rescinds previ ous order and allows all roads can accommodate on trip from 8,000 to 10.000 of chicago's soldier boys are coming home from rockford for christmas the war department has rescinded its order keeping the men in camp and gen eral kennon will let every possible man come home for five days the number of men will be limited â€¢ only by the traffic facilities on the five railroads between Chicago and camp grant Chicago will go ahead with plans for a city-wide celebration for the boys alderman w f lipps has is sued a call for a meeting of the ex ecutive committee in the council committee room in the city hall at 10 o'clock this morning able to catch ip we have lost forty-eight hours because of the war department's or der he said last night but we prob ably will be able to catch up every home and business place in the city should fly the american flag begin ning saturday when the men will start to arrive we will try to meet them all with bands upon their arrival we hope to carry out the plan for a monster meeting in the coliseum sunday aft ernoon when they will be addressed by governor lowden and mayor thompson gen kennon's order the announcement made last night setting aside the arrangement call ing for leaves for only 5 per cent of the men created wild enthusiasm at camp grant the order was con tained in the following orders re ceived by general kennon the secretary of war directs the number of men granted leave be left to the commanding officer . particular care being taken not to permit such numbers to go on leave as will further congest traffic over railroads in view of the present condition of traffic general kennon promptly decided to give the five-day leave beginning saturday noon to all the men living within a reasonable distance of the cantonment about 80 per cent of the soldiers will receive the benefit of the new order ' twenty-four special trains will be necessary to care for the exodus henry e scholle ends life on coast henry e scholle seventy formerly head of the h e scholle furniture company 121 south wabash avenue and one of chicago's oldest and bjpst known business men committed sui cide at his home in alta dena near los angeles yesterday he recently underwent two operations and a third had been ordered the first shot he fired at his head missed and when his nurs"e rushed into his room he com pelled her to stand back while he fired a second shot which struck his head mr scholle retired from busi ness and left Chicago six years ago bolsheviki beaten in siberia election by a staff correspondent of the in ternational news service tokio dec 19 dispatches to the japanese foreign office state that in the elections in siberia completed sunday the bolsheviki received only 40 per cent of the total vote and their opponents swept most of the larger cities mariial law isproclaimed in pertrograd bolsheviki decree death penalty for enemies as disorders in capital grow loot wine shops lenine troops and ukrainian army battle in street of odessa as peace parleys open petrograd dec 1 â€” general knledlnes following his victory at rostov has offered proposal to the bckshcviki c'ovrrnment to end the civil lvar on a basis of independence for the don territory and noninter vention by the maximalists london dec 19 â€” a state of siege has been proclaimed in petrograd by the council of workmen's and sol diers delegates this step was taken in an effort to repress disorders which have followed the wholesale looting of wineshops dispatches from petrograd announced to-night the death penalty for enemies of the nation abolished at the outset of the revolution has been restored in a decree which the bolsheviki commissary of justice is preparing terrific fighting is raging in the streets of odessa where ukrainian troops and bolsheviki red guards are battling for possession of this vital seaport no decision reached the ukrainians have fortifed the opera house and are sweeping the be sieging bolsheviki with machine gun fire apparently the fighting has not reached a decision the bolsheviki are still in control of most of the city bolsheviki troops have surrounded some ukrainians at the railway sta tion the bolsheviki war office also an nounced to-day that their forces are advancing toward kieff the bolsheviki to-day served an ultimatum on the ukrainians de manding that they cease granting aid to general kaledines within forty eight hours or else war would be de clared against them peace parleys open amsterdam dec 19 â€” count czernin austrian foreign minister and german foreign minister von kuehlmann arrived at brest-litovsk to-day and began their negotiations with the russian plenipotentiaries for peace leon trotsky the bolshe viki foreign minister has not yet joined the parleys a cologne gazette dispatch re ceived here to-day says the munici pality of budapest has adopted unani mously resolutions demanding that the government immediately grant hungary complete autonomy of gov ernment with the authority of the emperor as the sole link with austria trotsky dictates terms petrograd dec 19 leon trot sky the bolsheviki foreign minister has demanded through the russian peace commissioners at brest-litovsk that germany agree in principle to a peace without annexations or indem nities as a prelude to a peace with russia germany must also acknowl edge the right of self-determination of nations demand land partition washington dec 19 seeds of revolution sown by the bolsheviki have taken root in austria it was believed in administration circles fol lowing the receipt this afternoon of the following zurich dispatch in the commission of the budget in the austrian chamber of deputies urzal the agrarian czech deputy presented a resolution demanding the partition of landed property among the peasants to uphold his demand ur^al said since austria-hungary and germany have recognized the maximalists and fraternized with them it goes without saying that the former will adopt the principles of i communism which forms the basis of i maximalists reforms " 14 big british vessels sunk in last week london dec 19 fourteen british vessels of more than 1,600 tons each and three below that tonnage were sent down by german submarines or mines during the last week according to the official statement issued by the admiralty to-night one fishing craft was lost this is the same number of large vesseis lost the previous week and a de crease of eight smaller ones paris dec 19 french ship ping losses for the week ending december 15 were exceedingly light only one vessel under 1,600 tons was sunk and none over 1,600 tons one ship was attacked but escaped no fishing craft was sunk teuton force crosses piave driven back to water's edge by italians in offensive aimed at venice london dec 19 â€” austro-german troops succeeded in crossing the old piave to-day on pontoons but after a series of desperate engagements were driven back to the water's edge according to a report from italian army headquarters the fighting in this sector is grow ing in intensity the crossing was effected about three miles above the mouth of the river four other at tempts launched at the same time were checked before the pontoons could be swung into position fight ing at these points is still continuing battling for venice a successful crossing of the lower piave in force opens the venice road to the enemy in the mountainous districts on the northern front the enemy made massed attacks against the heights commanding the pass of san lorenzo leading down to the venetian plains and bassano all the attacks with one exception were repulsed in one sector the italian forces were withdrawn after an onslaught by the austrians with heavy reinforcements the pass is one of the vital links in the chain of defenses protecting the road to the plains two thousand additional italian prisoners including forty-eight of ficers were captured by austro-ger man troops in assault on positions at monte asolone and adjoining heights according to an official statement from the berlin war office to-night snows retard advance with the french armies in italy dec 19 â€” the long hoped for snows which are counted on to form a formidable obstacle to the teutonic advance at last have begun to fall in earnest and confidence is growing that the invaders have been stopped Taft advises using club on teuton heads boston dec 19 â€” former presi dent Taft told manufacturers at a banquet here to-night that the united states is not only fighting the kaiser and the prussian military system but the german people the only way we can win he added is by hit ting the german people on the head with a club mr Taft said the united states must send from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 american soldiers to france mother kills son who slew own boy montrose colo dec 19.â€”be cause he killed his own son john o bush was killed by his mother aged seventy-two and his body chopped up and boiled in lye this was the same manner in which he had hidden his own crime the aged woman confessed her crime to the police to-day army refused 40,000 guns 1,000 ships in american navy daniels shows u.s.fleet is ready big expansion efficient speed ing up told at house inquiry secretary rebukes britten denies friction with sims washington dec 19.â€”secre retary daniels was the first and chief witness at the opening of the investigation of the jiavy by the house naval committee to-day almost at the outset there was a clash between representative britten of the committee and mr daniels over an insinuation by brit ten that there had been friction be tween admiral sims and the de partment daniels characterized the questions as mess gossip and declined to go into details except in secret session on the whole the navy came out with flying colors the evidence of preparedness for war and of readi ness to cut red tape was in strong contrast with the evidence thus far brought out in the senate investiga tion of the war department 428 big ships building he says the committee was almost ready to applaud when secretary daniels an nounced that the department had un der construction 42s capital and im portant ships not including 350 sub marine chasers when he had fin ished reading a statement of the progress made by the navy in the war britten broke in will you furnish the committee with all the complaints that have come from admiral sims regarding the department's methods in comply ing with his requests i do not believe such mess gossip should be heralded and bandied about replied the secretary if such matters are to be discussed it should be done in executive session daniels retorts sharply to britten you do not think then - britten asked that we should know of the navy's failure to comply with ad miral sims requests i hope it is not the purpose of the navy or of this committee to show only the navy's favorable side i think your question is not a proper one to ask in open session that is a matter between admiral sims and myself as the question has been asked however i will say that admiral sims has been given every thing the navy has that it could give it is a matter for the bureau of operations to say what admiral sims ordnance offeris ignored by crozier navy asked for machine rifles day after relations were broken manufacturer says army chief not interested washington dec 19 rifle manufacturers to-day laid at the door of the war depart ment entire blame for the delay in supplying rifles and machine guns for american soldiers inability of department officers to sense the danger three months be fore war was declared and refusal to interest themselves in prepared ness are held responsible for tha small arms shortage Â± the manufacturers appearing as^fl witnesses before the senate militav^j affairs committee told how they had been rebuffed when they tried to con vince ordnance bureau officers they should prepare for impending trou ble their testimony showed that m the army to-day might be richer by^fl 40,000 machine guns if the ordnan^h bureau had adopted a different